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How do people with aphantasia play chess? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's funny, people make aphantasia out to be a huge disability but ironically that just feels like a lack of imagination on their part. The things where you actually need to see images instead of just abstract thinking are pretty rare.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's not a significant disability frankly, that's part of the reason it's only just now received a lot of study. It's more of a dysfunction than anything.

    It is fundamentally a lack of imagination, we cannot imagine things, it's impossible. Ironically, it's quite helpful to some individuals, me in particular i really enjoy any sort of complex stated systems. I can really latch onto those and comprehend them pretty well. I can do artistic things for about fuck all though.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is a lack of visual or sensory imagery, but not a lack of imagination.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    yeah, but a large part of imagination is being able to visualize something in your imagination. Otherwise doing things like 2 + 2 in your head would count as imagination.

    Also technically, not visual/sensory imagery, just the ability to visualize things in your mind. But that's semantics so meh.

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